Saturday, December 16, 2017

Health Management In It's Entirety

      It is easy to forget how many different parts and pieces go into community health and health management. As mentioned earlier in my blogs, it is quite common for most people to be unaware of community health and the issues that are faced. As time goes on, I hope that our world becomes more aware of health issues and how these things can affect their health. There are many health plans that have been implemented to improve population health and lower health care costs for the U.S.. I believe that if we can continue to educate people on public health such as the opioid crisis, the effects of sugar sweetened beverage, and the power of good health management, than it can be done. The communities health will improve, costs will go down, and we can take another step closer to this 20/20 health vision. We need to educate and create health management advocates and workers to provide leadership and direction to our health systems that provide our people with health services. Sometimes people just need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. What I mean by it in this situation is, let us step back and not forget the importance of well developed and hardworking leaders and managers. Let us look at new factors in today's day and age that hinder our health such as the enormous consumption of calories through sugar sweetened beverages and unhealthy eating. Let us step back and not be angry but help drug addicts and make a peace offering to improve our community. Let us plan now for our long term care in the future to help with costs and preparedness. Let the medical world adjust to how the current generation, the millennials, do and learn and succeed. Let us learn from our errors in the health care field and become better at what we do. Let's continue to control infections, understand chronic diseases, and and enforce health policy. Many different aspects and health communities contribute to the over health and they all need health management skills so that the 20/20 health vision can be reached.

2 comments:

  1. I can't remember the citation, but I distinctly recall reading how a large majority of health problems in America is lifestyle-related. While some problems are a consequence of genetics and random chance (infections, etc.), "most" can be traced to lack of exercise, poor nutrition choices, smoking, risky behaviors, obesity, undiagnosed/poorly-managed diabetes, etc. It's much easier and cheaper to prevent disease than to treat it. The challenge for all of us is to educate legislators to champion population health management policies and attitudes towards a mind-set of healthy living, and away from just disease treatment.

    I think you've been exposed to some great concepts (and an outstanding professor in Dr. Bonica) this semester. I know you'll use what you learned to do great things in the future.

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  2. Hi Kayli,
    Great reflective post. I've enjoyed reading your posts this semester!
    Have you looked into recent articles about the Healthy People 2020 vision? It's almost 2018 and there are still lots of opportunities to improve. Check out https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/leading-health-indicators/Healthy-People-2020-Leading-Health-Indicators%3A-Progress-Update

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